Nature's own
medicine
What plants and herbs can do for you, and what they cannot.
What we have read
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What the plants can and cannot do
Chamomile and valerian are the two most-recommended sleep herbs in the world. The trials are smaller and softer than the recommendations. That is worth knowing before you buy either.
The plant that worked, until more people looked
In 2019 the pooled trials said peppermint oil helps three people in every four you treat. In 2022 the same question was asked again, and the answer got smaller and less certain.
The calm herb with a liver problem
The pooled trials report one of the largest effects on stress we have seen anywhere. They also disagree with each other so violently that the pooling barely means anything, and regulators have started counting hospital admissions.
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